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A week ago the first meetup took place at Jugglehub – we had Dajana Günther and Sebastian Schelter as speakers. If you are interested in the talks, here you go: We met at lunch time, we had roughly 15 people show up in person (that includes two children that came together with their parents), another guy join… Continue reading First meetup: Check

For our first meetup we are going to have two talks: Sebastian Schelter will tell us more about “Community-Driven Open Source – the Apache Way”. The ASF has been building open source software in distributed teams for over 15 years. This should give a head start into how to organise software development in teams spanning… Continue reading First Async Cat Herding Meetup: Speakers

People working together across geographies and timezones is becoming increasingly common: Open source projects typically recruit contributors at global scale. The research community is open to participants all over the world. Large corporations are increasingly likely to build teams that span more than one site. Startups are hiring globally to be able to work together with the best talent. With the proliferation of open source software projects in development projects, chances are developers have to communicate with remote teams effectively even if everyone on the core team is located in one single room.

This meetup tries to bring together people who are interested in working in distributed teams: How does communication work? How does one create a shared vision and culture if not everyone is on site? What are the virtues of asynchronous vs. syncronous communication? How do we create transparency? What does collaboration look like? Do Agile principles still apply? Topics like over-commitment, self-discipline, integration of isolated remote workers, hurdles to remote work due the internal IT infrastructure, shared decision making, canonical communication media, implementation of code review, giving feedback, and a lot more are topics of interest. The goal is to bring together both people working in distributed teams and those who are wondering how on earth this might work.

If you’d like to join remotely, let us know – unless I’m told about a better option there might be a Google Hangout On Air for the event.

Our first meetup is scheduled to take place on July, 28th at jugglehub Berlin. The event is scheduled to open at 1p.m., that is Berlin lunch time. If there is enough interest, providing a reasonably priced food option is possible. Just leave a comment if you are interested and we’ll figure something out.

We will have two speakers to share their experiences. Names, bios, as well as information on the talk content to be provided soon at this very site.